If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

the best ideas flow at night

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

You find out what's in you when it comes out

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.